Since 1985, the lawyers at Shapiro & Appleton have dedicated their practice to helping people when they need it most. Our clients are usually down and out after a serious accident, struggling financially, physically, and emotionally. We take pride in advocating for the downtrodden and injured and getting the financial restitution they are owed.

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By adapting and being familiar with not only Virginia and North Carolina Courts, but also Courts throughout the Eastern United States, our attorneys have developed a set of skills that can be incredibly useful in every sort of significant personal injury case.

The attorneys with our firm actively engage in continuing legal education seminars in the field of injury law. Our lawyers have also regularly delivered lectures to personal injury lawyers not only in Virginia but at national trial organizations.

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In one case, we have sued the physician who needlessly prescribed fentanyl patches along with other stong medications. The drugs lead to the patient's accidental death.

Now, an ABC television affiliate based in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina (NC) has aired an investigative story on the national epidemic of accidental fentanyl overdose deaths. My law partner Rick Shapiro was interviewed for that story, as was our client, Charlotte resident Shawn Titta.

Titta's 34-year-old wife died suddenly after accidentally overdosing on her fentanyl prescription. She was instructed to use pain patches after being released from the hospital and told to apply a new patch every three days.

Big problem; Patient disorientation is a known side effect of fentanyl use. Tara Titta applied a second patch before waiting a full three days ad did not wake up the next morning. She accidentally overdosed and was alone in her home at the time of her death.

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The FDA needs to rein in fentanyl prescribing by doctors, who are being pushed by the pharmaceutical companies making the pain patches. That will be a challenge, though, since the patches earn drugmakers billions (not millions) in profits every year. The more money is at stake, the harder it is for the FDA to get the problem fixed.

However, this problem will be fought in court through wrongful death settlements and verdicts. Eventually, we hope to see a tightening of who gets prescribed fentanyl pain patches and hope the overprescribing and unsafe use of the products become limited to prescriptions for those who truly need that level of pain medication. Appropriate fentanyl patients include cancer patients and the terminally ill, not people who have low back pain or aches that can be controlled with less-potent medications.

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